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coredump: fix wrong comments on core limits of pipe coredump case
authorJovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:42:23 +0000 (14:42 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:25:20 +0000 (17:25 -0700)
In commit 898b374af6f7 ("exec: replace call_usermodehelper_pipe with use
of umh init function and resolve limit"), the core limits recursive
check value was changed from 0 to 1, but the corresponding comments were
not updated.

Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/exec.c

index 5af8390e0faeb13fb12bee84dc382d2a022323be..3684353ebd5f612a82f7e8981fb2ce80441e8565 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -2174,15 +2174,16 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
                }
 
                if (cprm.limit == 1) {
-                       /*
+                       /* See umh_pipe_setup() which sets RLIMIT_CORE = 1.
+                        *
                         * Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since
                         * we're not writing to the file system, but we use
-                        * cprm.limit of 1 here as a speacial value. Any
-                        * non-1 limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
-                        * a limit of 0 skips the dump.  This is a consistent
-                        * way to catch recursive crashes.  We can still crash
-                        * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE =  !1
-                        * but it runs as root, and can do lots of stupid things
+                        * cprm.limit of 1 here as a speacial value, this is a
+                        * consistent way to catch recursive crashes.
+                        * We can still crash if the core_pattern binary sets
+                        * RLIM_CORE = !1, but it runs as root, and can do
+                        * lots of stupid things.
+                        *
                         * Note that we use task_tgid_vnr here to grab the pid
                         * of the process group leader.  That way we get the
                         * right pid if a thread in a multi-threaded